Welcome to my website. I am an applied microeconometrician with main research interests in family, labor and health. I am also interested in different aspects of political economy and I work periodically on tax evasion. Recently I have found interest in using historical data from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

On this personal website you will find information on my research and teaching activities.

Here is a link to my Curriculum vitae.

Currently, my affiliations are:

• Professor of Economics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) in Austria.

• Head of the Institute of Economic Policy at JKU.

• Permanent Scientific Consultant at the Austrian Public Health Institute (GÖG) in Vienna.

• Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn.

Editorial work:

• I am Co-Editor of Empirica. This is the official journal of the Nationalökonomische Gesellschaft (Austrian Economic Association). Please not that we solicit descriptive papers on current or unexplored topics. Better a good descriptive paper than a bad causal analysis!

Other activities:

• I am member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Socio-Economic Panel (ASEP).

• I am a member of three Standing Field Committees of of the Verein für Socialpolitik:

  • Standing Committee for Population Economics

  • Standing Committee for Health Economics

  • Standing Committee for Social Policy

Latest publication:

• "Paying Adolescents for Health Screenings Works" (with Gerald J. Pruckner and Thomas Schober), forthcoming in the American Journal of Health Economics.

Recent presentations:

• Deaton: link

• Essen Health Conference 2022: "Health of Elderly Parents, their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers". This paper was awarded the Best paper ward, 3rd place.

• Keynote at NOeG 2020: "How Did Administrative Data Change Economic Research Output – A Descriptive Analysis"

Contact:

• University of Linz , Department of Economics, Altenbergerstrasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria, martin.halla@jku.at; my office is in the Keplergebäude in room K145C.

Elsewhere on the web:

• Twitter, IDEAS, Google Scholar, IZA